Monday night at the Hollywood Bowl, one thing I heard over and over from all three musical artists was about living your dreams.
That they were living theirs. And to believe in my own.
Dreams are meant to be lived. Abraham says that if we can desire it, the Universe can produce it.
The economic downturn that began almost immediately after I jumped the Corporate-America ship taught me about what I really need to be happy.
Even after many of us lost so much, we are still here. Some have decidedly learned how to be happy, despite those losses. Some are still stuck in the fear and scarcity that there isn’t enough to go around.
This post is about the high cost of saying Yes to wrong-for-you people.
I had been asking the universe for some confirmation, on what I was about to do; the decision I had come to.
This year has been such a painful learning process around discovering the value of working with people who strengthen me. Painful sometimes is needed so we can really get it.
I won’t say I don’t mind the pain, because I do. I’m human and would prefer it to be different.
I’m not gonna tell you that I’ve been able to put that pain aside because I now know what it has been diligently working to reveal to my awareness.
Gratitude
When you feel awesome, milk it. Line up all the blessings you can and count each little wonder tenderly!
When you feel awful, acknowledge it. When you feel like you have nothing else, if you look, Gratitude is still here. Helping you to remember, every “right here and now” becomes a “that was then.”
Go to gratitude. Any way, shape or form of it. Just find a way to get there.
Take a walk and look for things to appreciate (it’s what saved me from a window ledge once). Look for something in your life you love that you already have. Go back in time to a memory that brought you amazing joy and re-experience it again.
December 15 – 5 Minutes
Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010. (Author: Patti Digh)
This Friday, I’m in touch with deep feelings of gratitude and thanks. Seriously. I’m not just saying that ‘cuz I’m a coach and optimystical.
Gratitude for a 7 week old kitten. That just mysteriously “landed” in my universe Monday, October 11th. Mewing from under a car, where I crawled and maneuvered so I could catch him and pull him out of a wheel-well. So so scared. Heart beating fast. I remember hearing his cries for mom beginning around 4 am that morning and wondering “who’s kitty has been left outside?”
Something shifted almost immediately after pressing publish on my last post. I talk about pressing publish all the time. Which, unless you blog, you may not understand. But it’s similar to the window ledge. Pressing publish and jumping.
When I press publish, there is a sense of empowerment that happens. Sort of like saying “I choose.” And over the last two days, I’ve been choosing to step out of the window and down from the ledge.
I thought about writing it down, so I could remember how to do it next time. Because I’m learning, there is usually always a next time. Otherwise it wouldn’t be called practice. There will be another window ledge moment.
I‘m procrastinating. I really want to go play on Twitter. You see, my to-do list is quite undone and growing more unruly by the hour.
And I’m really frustrated with technology. I need a place to vent. And say “Grrrrrrrrrrr Technology! It’s sucks not to get it!!! Not to be able to figure it out. To feel stuck, stupid and stumped and just done with it. Ugh!”
Yes. Even for me. I wrestle it—determined—burning up precious brain cells in a relentless pursuit to find the fix. Figure it out.
Until I can’t. And give up.
Frustrated, I take a personal time-out.
Okay. Time to breath. And focus.
